USN-3023-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities

thunderbird vulnerabilities

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Ubuntu 15.10

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in Thunderbird.

Software Description

thunderbird - Mozilla Open Source mail and newsgroup client

Details

It was discovered that NSPR incorrectly handled memory allocation. If a
user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted message, an attacker
could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via
application crash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-1951)